Posted on 08/04/2005 11:46:42 AM PDT by JZelle
The Financial Times reports China has hired the marquee lobbying firm of Patton Boggs, for a $22,000 monthly retainer, to help improve its image in the United States. In the past, Patton Boggs has represented the nuclear proliferators of Pakistan and the jihad enablers of Saudi Arabia -- excellent experience for working with Beijing. "The Chinese are learning to walk the walk and talk the talk, and I don't have a problem with it," says Robert Kapp, former president of the U.S.-China Business Council. (Is there anything China could conceivably do that its cheering section in the business community would have a problem with?) When it comes to walking the walk in a way that doesn't resemble Frankenstein's monster, Beijing has a huge problem. China rulers have never had to persuade anyone. A regime based on edicts is ill-equipped to court public opinion. I'll give China some free advice on improving its image Stateside. • Stop threatening Taiwan, which is peaceful, democratic and unobtrusive. Beijing is brutish, belligerent and a royal pain. Guess who wins a beauty contest? • Repeal the so-called Anti-Secession Law, which seeks to provide a legal pretext for the subjugating the island of 23 million. Threatening a people who pose no danger to the Mainland, because it's obsessed with the conquest of what it calls a rebel province, isn't a way for Beijing to endear itself to the American people, who naturally sympathize with the underdog.
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So that's what they're calling it now.
"You can't polish a turd."
I only polish my dragon when it is absolutely necessary.
Yeah! I was kinda thinking Dragon was code for 'shortarm.'
Yeah, not what I was thinking of.
I knew you would be here!
I expect new Patton Boggs Freeper accounts to be opening soon to provide pro-China talking points.
Yea they made a great move today clamping down on all sorts of press. The 2008 Olympics is gonna be a nightmare for those Commie leaders.
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